Quotes About Expression

If you lack technique you lose the freedom to create.

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here.

A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

There is a point where political correctness becomes an acid that erodes freedom.

We don't have the freedom of speech to talk about the weather. We have the first amendment so we can say some very controversial things.

True freedom is the right to say something that others don't want to hear.

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.

Nothing is more beautiful than freedom of the body.

Everyone wants a voice in human freedom. There's a fire burning inside all of us.

To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the 'old', you derive security; from the 'new', you gain the flow.

We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

Freedom of expression does not extend to insulting the Prophets of Allah.

Only in those moments when I exercise my freedom am I fully myself.

A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.

Creativity is the mystery of freedom.

I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance.